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Love this Kit! April 20, 2013
Reviewer: Dan Franz from Cottage Grove, MN United States  
As I am a Ham Radio Operator, anything that comes in an Altoids tin I Must Own. While not overly impressed with the price I went to Google and searched for the assemble instructions and found them.  Todays society must want everything done for them.  People, USE YOUR Brain and Resources and go out and build something! I already own multiple Arduino's and they are my programmers. As DIY implies, "DO IT YOURSELF"!  :-)

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Wish I had Read the Reviews Prior to Purchase April 14, 2013
Reviewer: David Scheltema from Ann Arbor, MI United States  
I bought this at RadioShack and like everyone else reviewing found the packaging misleading.  

In fact, my version of the MintDuino kit does not even show the MintDuino it has a photo of the Survival Pack.  The link on the card inserted for the manual doesn't link to the pdf.  And all the complains regarding the FTDI programmer hold true for me.

Overall I am very disappointed with the packaging on the exterior of the kit!  MAKE really should strive to do better with their kits that they sell at third-party resellers.  To their credit It is very explicit on the website that you need an FTDI programmer, but to not have such notification for the store supplier kit is disappointing and unhelpful.

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Misleading - DO NOT WASTE TIME April 2, 2013
Reviewer: from ,  
I enjoyed the other Mintronics kits, but no more after this bulls**t. First you pay 25$ for the kit, oh yeah another 15$ for the FTDI adapter, and then did we mention another 3$ for the instructions. Extremely disappointed with Make now. Perhaps they should start MAKING it a habit to list what you need BEFORE you open the damn package. Returning and getting an Arduino. At least that already has the USB plug.

http://make-guide-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/guide_608_en.pdf

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This sucks March 27, 2013
Reviewer: jj Fryzel from Oakland , CA United States  
I went to radio shack bought a led strip of lights asked If I needed to buy anything additional and was told no but when I got it home the instructions tell me I need an arduino so back to RadioShack I go and bought this mintduino and get home to find that I need to buy a freakin FTDI ? Whatever that is....it's 15 additional dollars. So $39.99 For the lightstrip and then $2499 for the Mintduino and then ANOTHER $15 for the FTDI? this is bull$?/-! and then three round trips to RadioShack in gas!? The better just return my money altogether. I'm so annoyed. and I really want to learn about programming but this is no fun . C'mon MAKE dont make this so hard! at least give a shopping list of what the hell I need (in plain beginner level tech language)provided at the store with your product bc RadioShack staff sure as hell can't help more than reading packaging along w u. Pfft!

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Garbage March 22, 2013
Reviewer: VReddy from Naperville, IL United States  
I picked up this product at Radio Shack. Maker Shed did not put up that you need a programmer to put this togather. Secondly on box it says the instructions are on the web site.

So you come to the web site and decide to buy two more products like the instruction book and the programmer and wait another week. Stupid is the word that comes to my mind. Not in the Returning the product not worth my time to jump through hoops....
VR

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Dont buy Worthless buy a real Arduino for less March 22, 2013
Reviewer: Joe P from Baltimore, MD United States  
This item just like all items from makershed
Fails to provide any assembly instructions there is nothing in the tin and nothing on the site on how to assemble this or any items they sell for that matter you will also be required to buy other items just to make it work if you do manage to get it assembled

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Yeah, instructions. February 15, 2013
Reviewer: David Preece from Wellington, - New Zealand  
Some instructions would have been nice. Even just a link to a pdf would have done. Really not good enough :(

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Package was misleading in store January 18, 2013
Reviewer: Angry New Yorker from ,  
I bought this product at Radio Shack and thought it was a good deal. $25 vs. $30 for a pre-made board. Little did I know that there was no way to program the chip until I got home and read the instruction on your website. The package its self mentions nothing about additional components required to make the product actually work in its completeness. This was extremely frustrating, Whats better is I now have to spend $15 more to make it work. The chip also has an annoying sticker on it so the chip number can not be verified before being placed into a programmer board. Will someone from Makershed please assist or advise on what should be done next as I do not want this product any longer and Radio Shack will not take it back. Other than these problems the product has everything listed in the video and to my surprise the components including the breadboard match in close visual likeness making the tutorial easy to follow.

Thank you for reading.

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Programming Troubles? October 18, 2012
Reviewer: Joseph Colburn from Salisbury, MD United States  
I acctually purchased the MintDuino Game Pack, but I feel this comment is just as valid here.  If you get the FTDI Friend with this, you'll need to set the board to "Arduino Duemilanove w/ ATmega328" for it to progamme.  Otherwise it will fail and the only error you'll get is "programmer is not responding".  Have fun!


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Helped my 14 yr old build it. August 18, 2012
Reviewer: peter churchyard from mount airy, MD United States  
I helped my 14 yr old build it. A link to the build instructions would been good on the tin. Actually any instructions would have been good. Once downloaded the instructions are ok. Hardest part for my kid was trimming the wires.  Put the chip into a UNO to program it. thin nosed pliars, wire stripper and cutter are needed to make the kit.

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